Driving & Vehicle Dynamics
This (1) day training focuses on fundamental vehicle control skills to respond instantly to road hazards and emergency situations.
Driver's Education teaches rules, laws and courtesies. This course teaches vehicle handling techniques through hands-on realistic driving exercises and simulated emergency situations in a safe and controlled environment.
Training is 6 1/2 Hours of hands-on driving and 1 1/2 hours of classroom time.
Accident Avoidance (AA) training includes:
- Ocular driving techniques: training your eyes to look where you want to go, not at what you're trying to avoid
- Understanding vehicle language and feedback
- Skid control and recovery practice on a dedicated skid pad and serpentine course
- Threshold braking on straights and curves
- "Swerve to Avoid" maneuvers at highway speeds
- Identifying and understanding the characteristics of Anti-lock Brake Systems (ABS), traction control and stability control
- Off-road recovery
Frequently Asked Questions:
Can I participate with a learner’s permit?
No, only licensed drivers are allowed to participate.
Can I participate if I am under 18 years old?
Yes, but a Minor Waiver must be completed by a parent or guardian.
What is the minimum age someone can participate in this course?
16 with a valid regular Driver’s License. (Learner’s Permit is not acceptable.)
Is this course just for teenagers?
No, everyone will learn something from this course. All are welcome to participate.
Do you train in my car?
No, we use our training vehicles for the course.
The (2) two day Armored Vehicle Course is designed for drivers operating in high threat and/or high crime environments. Due to the higher center of gravity and added weight of the armored vehicle, emphasis is placed on fundamental vehicle control skill sets to include serpentine, swerve-to-avoid, threshold braking, and skid control. In addition, our fundamental vehicle control training consists of high speed evasive driving, ambush survivability, attack recognition, and scenario based attack training.
- Fundamental Vehicle Control: Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, the importance of proper use of eyes, body position, hand management, threshold braking, braking-in-turns, swerving to avoid objects, Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) and off-road recoveries. Students will also be taught the difference between over steer and under steer and how they are controlled by skid recovery.
- Backing and Y Turn: Straight line backing and maneuvering around obstacles at high rates of speed in conjunction with Y turn.
- Driver Down - Passenger Front Seat Driving: Demonstrates the skills to acquire, maintain control and escape an attack while operating the vehicle from the passenger front seat.
- Technical/Street Line Driving: Fundamental Vehicle Control skills, vehicle dynamics, weight and traction control as well as dealing with adrenaline and stress management. Positively using “line theory” to accurately read and negotiate a road way at elevated speeds while adjusting their “line” for opposing traffic.
- Barricade Breaching (RAM): Ramming through a vehicle that is blocking your path.
- Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV)/Armored Vehicle (AV) Familiarization: The challenge of all Fundamental Vehicle Control exercises in a high-center of gravity SUV and AV. Recognize the differences of driver inputs and capabilities of the vehicle.
- Attack Recognition: Studying historical cases of attacks and training to recognize indicators involving individuals while in transit. Understand mental mindset and situational awareness for quick decisions and the ability to execute an escape.
- Barricade Confrontations: Students will conduct multiple attack scenarios in the armored vehicle and be expected to execute an escape maneuver.
This (2) two day course is designed for those individuals who are vulnerable and under the threat of a terrorist or organized criminal attack while in transit. The training emphasizes the proactive approach to protection.
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Fundamental Vehicle Control: Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, the importance of proper use of eyes, body position, hand management, threshold braking, braking-in-turns, swerving to avoid objects, Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) and off-road recoveries. Students will also be taught the difference between over steer and under steer and how they are controlled by skid recovery.
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Backing Y & J Turns: Straight line backing and maneuvering around obstacles at high rates of speed in conjunction with Y and/or J Turns.
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Driver Down - Passenger Front Seat Driving: Demonstrates the skills to acquire, maintain control and escape an attack while operating the vehicle from the passenger seat.
- Technical/Street Line Driving: Fundamental Vehicle Control skills, vehicle dynamics, weight and traction control as well as dealing with adrenaline and stress management. Positively using “line theory” to accurately read and negotiate a road way at elevated speeds while adjusting their “line” for opposing traffic.
- Close Proximity Driving: Demonstrate the ability to maneuver the vehicle between moving objects in extremely congested areas using peripheral vision without making physical contact.
- Precision Intervention Technique (PIT): Actual contact exercise using the vehicle as a weapon to immobilize an attacker.
- Barricade Breaching (RAM): Ram through a vehicle that has created a barricade blocking your path of travel.
- Attack Recognition: Studying historical cases of attacks and training to recognize indicators involving attacks on individuals while in transit. Understand mental mindset and situational awareness for quick decisions and the ability to execute an escape.
- Barricade Confrontations: Students will conduct multiple attack scenarios in the armored vehicle and be expected to execute an escape maneuver.
- Car Shoot Demonstration: Witness the shooting of a vehicle with some of the worlds most common military munitions. Key compartments will be targeted and perforation issues will be discussed.
- Sport Utility Vehicle Familiarization: Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity SUV.
- Armored Vehicle Familiarization: (Additional option in registration. Extra cost per student applies.) Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity Fully Armored Vehicle.
- Right-Hand Drive Familiarization: (Additional option in registration. Extra cost per student applies.) Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity Right-hand Drive SUV.
- Improvised Explosive Device Vehicle Search: The familiarization of different types of improvised explosive devices that may be placed on or around a vehicle. Students will be given the task of conducting a search for explosive devices.
- Attack Scenarios: Students will participate and observe simulated vehicle attacks with the use of paintball, blank ammunition and roadside IED simulators.
This training emphasizes the proactive approach to protection. The areas that will be covered are Terrorist Operations & Surveillance Detection; consisting of past terrorist/criminal attacks, lessons learned, route analysis and surveillance detection.
This (3) three day course consists of Terrorist Operations & Surveillance Detection with the Evasive Driving Course (EDC).
Terrorist Operations & Surveillance Detection
- Understand how terrorists/criminal organizations conduct surveillance
- Understand how the gathered information is used to plan an attack
- Focuses on case studies of attacks against individuals while in transit
- Conduct a map and physical route analysis to determine areas of vulnerability
- Procedures of how to make surveillance detection part of your daily lifestyle
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Fundamental Vehicle Control: Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, the importance of proper eye location, body position, hand management, threshold braking, braking-in-turns, swerving to avoid objects, Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) and off-road recoveries. Students will also be taught the difference between over steer and under steer and how they are controlled by skid recovery.
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Backing Y & J Turns: Straight line backing and maneuvering around obstacles at high rates of speed in conjunction with Y and/or J Turns.
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Driver Down - Passenger Front Seat Driving: Demonstrates the skills to acquire, maintain control and escape an attack while operating the vehicle from the passenger seat.
- Technical/Street Line Driving: Fundamental Vehicle Control skills, vehicle dynamics, weight and traction control as well as dealing with adrenaline and stress management. Positively using “line theory” to accurately read and negotiate a road way at elevated speeds while adjusting their “line” for opposing traffic.
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Close Proximity Driving: Demonstrate the ability to maneuver the vehicle between moving objects in extremely congested areas using peripheral vision without making physical contact.
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Precision Intervention Technique (PIT): Actual contact exercise using the vehicle as a weapon to immobilize an attacker.
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Barricade Breaching (RAM): Ram through a vehicle that has created a barricade blocking your path of travel.
-
Attack Recognition: Studying historical cases of attacks and training to recognize indicators involving individuals while in transit. Understand mental mindset and situational awareness for quick decisions and the ability to execute an escape.
- Barricade Confrontations: Students will conduct multiple attack scenarios in the armored vehicle and be expected to execute an escape maneuver.
-
Car Shoot Demonstration: Witness the shooting of a vehicle with some of the worlds most common military munitions. Key compartments will be targeted and perforation issues will be discussed.
- Sport Utility Vehicle Familiarization: Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity SUV.
- Armored Vehicle Familiarization: (Additional option in registration. Extra cost per student applies.) Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity Fully Armored Vehicle.
- Right-Hand Drive Familiarization: (Additional option in registration. Extra cost per student applies.) Students will be challenged on Fundamental Vehicle Control skills by recognizing the differences of driver's inputs and capabilities in a high-center of gravity Right-hand Drive SUV.
- Improvised Explosive Device Vehicle Search: The familiarization of different types of improvised explosive devices that may be placed on or around a vehicle. Students will be given the task of conducting a search for explosive devices.
- Attack Scenarios: Students will participate and observe simulated vehicle attacks with the use of paintball, blank ammunition and roadside IED simulators.
This (1) one day course is designed to improve the off-road driving skills at any experience level.
- Different terrain surfaces: gravel, top soil, grass, hard packed clay and shale rock
- How to read and change driving techniques based on vehicle language
- Approach and departure angles
- Suspension variables and the importance of planning prior to negotiating an obstacle
- To identify components both underneath and in the engine compartment of a vehicle and what needs to be protected
- Understanding of driver/vehicle relationship
- Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, body position, hand management and pedal control
- The challenges of high and low frequency bumps and the problems each can create
- The challenges of smoothly negotiating a variety of obstacles: rocks, stumps, ditches, dry creek beds, logs, ruts, hills, mud and top soil
- How to use available materials to overcome obstacles
- Necessity and technique of using a ground guide
- Employment of equipment to recover a downed or stuck vehicle in a single or multi-vehicle situation